***An original gun poll

[dailydave21]

This is a pretty interesting poll about gun rights. If you take it you can see what people think of the 2nd amendment and what types of guns it supports. my favorite part is that you can sort the results and group them by gender/part of country/etc.

http://www.thegunpoll.com

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[Sarah Ibarruri]

1. Wow, and the people that sponsor the gun poll are extreme martial art fighters...

In other words, steroid users, testosterone injectors, hypodermic needle junkies. Scary!

[yay]

2. yay sterotypes

Good poll, I did find the results rather interesting as well. I wish it were more detailed.

[doc03]

3. Interesting, it looks like people in the city, suburbs and

rural areas all support the 2nd Amendment. I have always been under the impression it was people in the cities where all the crime is that want to take guns away. It looks to me the gun grabbers are just a radical fringe from all areas.

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[benEzra]

5. Half of U.S. gun owners are Dems and indies...

and a lot of us own so-called "assault weapons" that the republicans at the Brady Campaign wish to ban.

[Tim01]

7. Can you imagine if the dems flipped on the gun issue?

No matter how people WANT things to be, democrats are currently seen as mostly hostile toward guns, and republicans are seen as pro guns. And there is a lot of truth to it.
But if the democratic leadership did a reverse and started supporting gun rights, the republicans would have nothing. The democrats would pick up a huge block of gun supporters, AND a bunch of fence sitters. It would be staggering. Can you imagine if the NRA was BACKING democrats? Holy cow. Would there be anybody on the other side at all?
I think it would almost come down to constitution vs corporation.

[doc03]

9. Where I live the overwhelming majority of voters 2-1 or 3-1

are registered Dems but in national elections vote Repug on that one issue. Everyone owns guns here and most people hunt and our crime rate is very low, we just don't buy the argument that (guns) kill people. I would like to see Pres.Obama came out today and say my Administration will not support any further restrictions on gun or ammo sales and will not tax them out of existence. The gun sales have gone crazy since he was elected, guns are selling as soon as they come in, you are lucky to find handgun ammunition at all. The gun dealers and the NRA have people worked up into a buying frenzy. I had a gun dealer tell me the other day that people with money are buying up what were classified as assault weapons and handguns by the dozen. There is another rumor going around that the government is going to require ammo manufacturers use a powder that will deteriorate in 2 years so people are hording all the ammo they can get their hands on. This issue has killed us over the years, I work in a Union shop and many of my co-workers actually vote against their own best interests on that issue alone. A Union man voting for a Repug is like a chicken voting for the Colonel.

[Tex-Slim]

10. Golly

I guess I'm not that up on gun control issues... I guess I've lived a sheltered life.

[pipoman]

6. I'm forever confused

when I come here to this forum and find self proclaimed liberal Democrats advocating for extremely conservative interpretation of an enumerated right...I always thought that Democrats were advocates of liberal interpretation of all civil rights...I know I am...

[Jackson1999]

8. You should not be confused

We do take have "liberal" interpretation of 2A. 2A is a very broad statement of the right to keep and bear arms. There should be only minimum restrictions on it, just as their should be with our freedom of speech, or our right to privacy (as the court has ruled IS protected by the constitution.

It is the gun grabbers who take a conservative interpretation.

[Tex-Slim]

11. IN English, please

I've lost track of what is a "liberal" and what is a "conservative" interpretation of this particular part of our Constitution now, as I suspect that others are reversing the meaning of those terms when they refer to the same parts of the document perhaps.

Is it liberal to uphold the supposed right to bear arms, or liberal to oppose it as only meaning that you have that right if you are a member of a militia or some such?

On that note, I ran into some scary militia types when I was up Idaho way once or twice...

[Tim01]

12. How about if we compare it to the first amendment?

I honestly think a lot of people believe the term liberal means "nice".

How does this sound to you. First amendament rights(FAR) are protected in the rural areas. But in the cities reasonable speech laws are enforced. FAR do not apply in urban areas where there are more people to offend.Racial speech is illegal,abortion speech is illegal, terroristic speech/anti-govt speech is illegal,religious speech is illegal. It is not permitted verbally, in print, or electronically. This is for the good of the cities. Nobody needs to say these offensive things anyway.
This is protecting the First Amendment.

[FLAprogressive]

13. great post

the gun grabbers (and everyone else, justifiably) would be enraged if that happened.

[pipoman]

14. Simple

A liberal interpretation of rights is allowing for the least restrictions on rights possible. A conservative interpretation would be restricting rights which may be unpopular or maybe, might enhance safety even the slightest amount. Danger is inherent in a free society. Because you don't like the way someone else looks or acts isn't reason to restrict their rights, nor is your fear (which is undoubtedly irrational by your own description).

[Iktomiwicasa]

15. What the hell

is liberal about grabbing guns? Gun grabbers are authoritarian Statists, not liberals.

[AtheistCrusader]

16. What are you, some kind of useless spam bot? Are you going to post this again in 3 months?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=118x194959

You even used the same three thumbs up. Get out spammer.

[AlinPA]

17. Stupid poll, you can't see results. I clicked on results and it goes to the poll again.